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repeating this invocation, "Thy Kingdom come," and God
alone knows how long they will continue to pray for and
vainly anticipate its coming. This Christian anticipation of
the coming of the Kingdom of God is of the same nature as
the anticipation of Judaism for the coming of Messiah. Both
these anticipation exhibit an inconsiderate and thoughtless
imagination, and the wonder is that they persistently cling to
this futile hope. If you ask a Christian priest or parson
what he thinks of the Kingdom of God, he will tell you all
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sorts of illusory and meaningless things. This Kingdom is,
he will affirm, the Church to which he belongs when it will
overcome and absorb all the other heretical Churches. An-
other parson or priest will harangue on the "millennium."
alone knows how long they will continue to pray for and
vainly anticipate its coming. This Christian anticipation of
the coming of the Kingdom of God is of the same nature as
the anticipation of Judaism for the coming of Messiah. Both
these anticipation exhibit an inconsiderate and thoughtless
imagination, and the wonder is that they persistently cling to
this futile hope. If you ask a Christian priest or parson
what he thinks of the Kingdom of God, he will tell you all
62
sorts of illusory and meaningless things. This Kingdom is,
he will affirm, the Church to which he belongs when it will
overcome and absorb all the other heretical Churches. An-
other parson or priest will harangue on the "millennium."